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An Interdisciplinary Laboratory

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How red tape and other

• bstacles are holding

us back Alexander Struck Head of IT Cluster of Excellence

Image Gestaltung Knowledge

An Interdisciplinary Laboratory

Me

• leading a IT Team
• research in citation network analysis
• everything Open Science

IT Team Services

• Private Storage Cloud,
• Container Environment and Virtual Machines,
• Consulting in Platform & Software Development,
• Coding & Data Visualization,
• New-Toys-Setup, First-Level-Support, ...

Cluster of Excellence at Humboldt-Universitiaet zu Berlin

• 400+ people, 25+ disciplines
• uncounted collaborations with academia & industry

About

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An Interdisciplinary Laboratory

• Surveillance Concerns 


GitLab documentation of activity is scary for privacy folk
 How does the RSE community deal with that?

• Discrimination Concerns 


Same money for everyone regardless of skills
 Which argument trumps discrimination?

• Software Quality 


Would you please come in for a pacemaker reboot?
 Using S* for studies because R is open source?

• Reproducibility Issues 


code submissions at conferences as container images?!

Instead of an agenda, a list of problems

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An Interdisciplinary Laboratory

• Information Retrieval Problems


existing solutions ignored or not found
 Do RSEs use DIRTdirectory.org, re3data.org, ... ?

• Responsibility Limited to Projects


dev frozen, access to software and data depending on availability of former project members

• Software Sustainability is Questionable and Questioned


due to project & prototype orientation

• Licensing


use of unlicensed code and not licensing published code

agenda ... continued

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• Authentication Road Blocks 


local GitLab not open for collaborating developers

• Development Process Concerns 


git what? security who?

• Contractual Issues re Intellectual Property


projects can hardly own IP, it's always employer first

• Cost of Maintenance ignored in Funding


Where is the money for hosting your important (abandoned) platform? Project orientation responsible for dumping results.

• Red Tape


Charging other institutions for a (digital) service is nearly impossible due to bureaucratic commercialization overhead


agenda ... continued

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An Interdisciplinary Laboratory

• I had 1 application for an IT job because I'm not allowed to
• ffer the money I'm entitled to according to the labor union

agreement

• Medical research team wanted an 1 TB internal SSD instead
• f 6 TB external RAID, because their software

miscalculates numbers when writing on a non-local file systems

• My team touched a project where developers left us a year

ago but more functionality required for research

Last week

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An Interdisciplinary Laboratory

Thanks for the attention! What are your concerns & solutions?
 Alexander.Struck@hu-berlin.de

• Where should RSEs step in?

Q & A

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